Show Daily H Health aIh Service ce This Is the first of ot three articles arti arU- cles des by Dr Fishbein In which hi h he reviews reports of three famous British physicians on 01 the progress ss i of medicine In the last quarter century By DR M MORRIS FISHBEIN The remarkable pr progress gress that world medicine has hns made in thelast thelast the thelast last quarter century Is revealed graphically by the reports of three distinguished British physicians In Inas Inas inas as many different fields nelds To Sir Walter Waiter Langdon Brown s professor of physics at the University of Cambridge the outstanding outstanding outstanding out out- standing advances of the last 25 years come in the field of bacteriology bacteriology bacteriology with all aU the new work that I has been done on antitoxins vaccines vaccines vac vac- cines and similar preparations the discovery of ot radioactivity and r rec recognition c- c c- c of the principle of Internal secretion In th the glands Our knowledge of deficiency dis diseases diseases dis- dis e eases ses' ses has developed only since 1912 True rue there was some realization as early as 1897 that a condition called caned beriberi would result In p people pee peo o pIc woo lived solely on polished rice But even at the end of ot the World war It was was was' still being disputed whether rickets was due to some error of diet or to living In the dark Now we know both of these factors are Involved So startling was the rev revelation of the effects of vitamin D on the human human human hu hu- hu- hu man body that its Us' use was carried to an extreme and violet ultra rays began to be applied for all aU sorts sorta of diseases The history of the use of other vitamins is equally dramatic and now we have some of the vitamins vitamins vita vita- mins mine in pure pure form Closely related to advancements in vitamin knowledge have been th the studies of the internal secretions the vital substances poured poured- by the glands directly into the blood Probably Probably abl ably most significant was the discovery discovery discovery dis dis- dis- dis covery of insulin in 1922 which has r revolutionized the t treatment nt of diabetes dia dia- dia- dia betes Then came recognition of the ef effects el- el feels of the par parathyroid glands and more recently determination of many hormones coming from the pituitary gland This gland contains contains contains con con con- so many active principles and andis is so related I to the action of at the other othe glands that the great English physician calls caUs it the leader of the endocrine orchestra As a res result It of these studies of I the glands it has been found the human body uses chemical agents for its own regulation Indeed Indeed Indeed In In- deed it has hils been shown that every nervous nervous' s' s Im Impulse ulse liberates a s chemical chemical chemical chemi chemi- cal substance and that vari various us drugs can f facilitate or inhibit th the effects of these thes chemical substances substances sub sub- stances on the tissues of the body Out of these studies has come the knowledge of ot allergy and the special special ape ape- cial sensitivities of bodies to certain certain tam tain substances Quite as significant cant f for r human health has been the new knowledge of X rays and ra ra- ra- ra Use of the ray X has been extended gradually with the combination combination combination combi combi- nation of chemical substances which pick out special organs Besides the value of f X ray for diagnosis we have its application in treatment of new growths and various vari varl ous forms of blood disorders In 1914 Sir Walter L Langdon Brown points out the application of f psychology to medicine was was' in its Infancy Since then the work of Sigmund Zigmund Zig- Zig mund Freud has been more fully appreciated and the great English physician believes that the services services ser ncr vices of Freud to knowledge have b been en as great as those of Darwin Freud introduced several new methods of at investigation into hu human hu- hu man hian psychology and more and more doctors are arc beginning to apply Freudian ideas and methods in m han ban dUng cases with mental aspects And there are very few cases In Indeed Indeed In- In deed which do not h have ve such as as- as peels peets |